read.nodes: Read NCBI nodes file

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read.nodesR Documentation

Read NCBI nodes file

Description

Take an NCBI nodes file and convert it to a data.table. NOTE: This function is now deprecated for read.nodes.sql (using SQLite rather than data.table).

Usage

read.nodes(nodeFile)

Arguments

nodeFile

string giving the path to an NCBI node file to read from (both gzipped or uncompressed files are ok)

Value

a data.table with columns id, parent and rank with a key on id

References

https://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/

See Also

read.names, read.nodes.sql

Examples

nodes<-c(
 "1\t|\t1\t|\tno rank\t|\t\t|\t8\t|\t0\t|\t1\t|\t0\t|\t0\t|\t0\t|\t0\t|\t0\t|\t\t|",
 "2\t|\t131567\t|\tsuperkingdom\t|\t\t|\t0\t|\t0\t|\t11\t|\t0\t|\t0\t|\t0\t|\t0\t|\t0\t|\t\t|",
 "6\t|\t335928\t|\tgenus\t|\t\t|\t0\t|\t1\t|\t11\t|\t1\t|\t0\t|\t1\t|\t0\t|\t0\t|\t\t|",
 "7\t|\t6\t|\tspecies\t|\tAC\t|\t0\t|\t1\t|\t11\t|\t1\t|\t0\t|\t1\t|\t1\t|\t0\t|\t\t|",
 "9\t|\t32199\t|\tspecies\t|\tBA\t|\t0\t|\t1\t|\t11\t|\t1\t|\t0\t|\t1\t|\t1\t|\t0\t|\t\t|"
)
tmpFile<-tempfile()
writeLines(nodes,tmpFile)
read.nodes(tmpFile)

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